BCAC Members, Co-Sponsors, and Community Friends, 

Berryessa Citizens Advisory Council (BCAC) is hosting a candidate forum with the two candidates on the ballot for San Jose’s district 4 city council position. This is a great chance to get together and know each candidate better as they field questions from our community. We have confirmed that David Cohen and Kansen Chu will be in attendance.

Request – We want to ask that you help by giving us your questions for the candidates for San José City District #4 at our Candidate Forum meeting Monday February 12, 2024. We would appreciate your written questions by February 5th.

Both candidates – David Cohen and Kansen Chu – have accepted our invitation to attend.

• What do you want to ask?  Please keep each question on a single issue that both candidates can answer.  Send us as many questions as you want.
• How? –  Submit questions to the Question Screening Committee, just send them in an e:mail tofowle1234@comcast.net.  We will collect all of the questions for the Question Screening Committee to sort and prioritize for submission to the Moderator.  

The primary election will be soon upon us.  Ballots are scheduled for posting Feb 5th with the election on March 5th.  But before you mark it for Council Member for District #4 San José, we urge you to come to our community forum and listen to what they share.

Background – San José is the 10th largest city in the country with an annual budget in excess of $7B. Our city is governed by the Mayor (elected at-large) and a 10-person council (elected by district), so it takes real leadership to organize the six votes on council needed to establish priorities, adopt any policy, or approve programs.